Ho Chi Minh City, Feb. 28 -- The 11th Vietnam-Japan Festival, which will take place in Ho Chi Minh City on March 7-8, is expected to attract around 450,000 visitors, heard a press conference on February 27.

Pham Dut Diem, Director of the municipal Department of External Relations, highlighted the significance of the festival, saying that it contributes to further deepening and substantiating the sound relationship between Vietnam and Japan in general, as well as Ho Chi Minh City and Japan in particular, especially in the context that the two countries upgraded their ties to a Comprehensive Strategic Partnership for Peace and Prosperity in Asia and the world in November 2023.

In that spirit, the 11th edition of the festival aims to promo...